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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (250204)9/7/2005 7:02:09 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1575272
 
"They think the Bushies are trying to hide the numbers......again."

Maybe you can ask John or Jim, but I am used to getting a count as they find them. I mean, you don't really need to id them before then, they are dead and you count them. There isn't much of a question of whether or not they are dead, and most are pretty intact, unlike at the WTC. So not as much danger of having several arms, some fingers, a foot or two and trying to decide how many people it represents. But the only number I've seen is from Mississippi and that one is 160. Which, as you note, hasn't changed in a while. Yet Mississippi officials are saying it will be around 1000. Nothing is said officially about Louisiana, although every once in a while you get a number, like the 100 in Chalmette who died waiting for transport. Add in the 30 in the nursing home, and Chalmette lost at least 130 residents. But that assumes that is all that died, which may or may not be justified.

All I have to say is I saw an interview where the reporter was talking to a rescue worker and they were talking about how nasty the water was. The reporter said something like "and just behind us there are bodies floating"... Now think about that. There are so many bodies that they can't even get out the ones in the area where they operate.
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